For TOM CLEARWATER: The force and character of Absolutes is NOT the side-effect of a logical exclusion of relativity and contingency. Such exclusivity-by-contrast is only a convenient heuristic for locating Absolutes. Close observation of such locations, however, reveals that the minimal contextual presence of relativity cannot be extricated from the act of detection. It remains unaccounted for until it is conceived as intrinsic to the definition of an Absolute. The function, necessity and contradiction-like intensity of Absolutes is an indefinitely accelerating feedback effect occurring at the (double-sided, relational) edge of thinkability. Infinity never appears as a realized entity-quantity but rather always as an unlimited trajectory of escape from finite circumstances. This dynamic and endless approximation of infinity is the actual form of an Absolute. The quotation marks are always already included. We can still pick up, validate and require Absolutes as the ontological presumptions for ANY AND ALL realities but we can never perfectly extinguish (except as shorthand) the relational, proximal, dynamic and contextualized nature involved in their identification.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:57:59 +0000
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